One of the things that bothers me the most about English assignments is their vagueness and lack of detail. The majority of these assignments just ask you to find a strange and convoluted way to "connect" the text to a "thematic message" or some shit like that, even when doing so is impossible without warping the text or taking it out of context. And don't even get me started on those stupid fucking "rubrics" that are used to grade the assignments. For example, in order for a slideshow to get full credit, it has to look, "attractive", and, "creative", which is just a nice way of saying that you have to plaster useless fucking decorations on the slideshow just to get a fucking 90. Mainbros, what are your experiences with assignments like these?
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my experience is doing nothing
Imagine not having to write any essays
its honestly not that hard, just pay attention.
did you even read my post bruh
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I did Cambridge A level English in the last year of highschool. We had to do weird stuff like analyze a transcript of a two year old child talking to their parent. We also had to reconcile the analysis with some scientific theory. We did analysis of social media conversations as part of language change. Had to use linguistic theories to explain how we went from "How dost thou, sweet lord?" to "ay yo wassup XD".
Shit wasn't easy, but looking back it was kinda fun because it was all scientific and stuff.
That was just during A level though. Before that it was your typical "write an essay about flowers" type of ESL bullshit that I dreaded more than having to wake up in the morning.
At least your assignments allowed you to express yourself without having to follow a rubric.
In higher education it least in Sweden you can just wing it. I despite being a very autistic stupid child send to special ed in school, managed to have the highest grade in English since our standards were so low. You just have to write the exakt things that are said in the text you just read, or use some media to explain how you know or use words. I read a boring ass text on some Somalian girl running away from home, and made a whole pharagraph how I knew most of the "hard" or "new" words from the video games I play, and in which context they are used to describe things. That is my only guess how you are supposed to be creative whilst most of the work is just copy and paste words from books you read.
Most essays in English class are based on books, so I wasn't allowed to use anything other than the text. I just have a very hard time finding evidence from the book to support the "thesis statement", even when none is present.